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Marquise de Pompadour, c.1749/55 by Maurice Quentin de La Tour
Canvas Print - 16981-LTM

Location: Louvre Museum, Paris, France
Original Size: 175 × 128 cm

Marquise de Pompadour by Maurice Quentin de La Tour (c.1749/55) is reproduced as a museum-quality giclée canvas print. Printed with archival inks on 400 g/m² canvas and hand-varnished for UV protection, it can be made in any size up to 41.3 × 30.3 in, scaled proportionally, with optional framing. Free worldwide shipping available; unframed prints ship in 2 workdays, framed in 7 to 8. Guaranteed 100-year color durability.

Marquise de Pompadour by Maurice Quentin de La Tour, c.1749/55 - canvas print
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Giclée Canvas Print | $69.23 USD

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The size you set is the printed image, the part you see once the canvas is stretched. Beyond that size we add 1.2 in of blank canvas on every side, at no extra cost, so the stretcher bars have something to grip. A 21.7 × 15.9 in print therefore arrives as 24 × 18.2 in. Both numbers are shown in Your Selection above and change with the slider.

Yes. The slider covers every size up to 41.3 × 30.3 in, always in the proportions of the original. If you need something larger, or a size that has to fit a frame you already own, write to us with the title and the dimensions and we will tell you what is possible. Every print is made to order, so there is usually a way.

Because the original is an oil painting on canvas. We match the print medium to the original: oil paintings go on canvas, works on paper go on fine art paper. Our canvas is natural cotton, 400 g/m² Canvas, acid-free and pH neutral, and its woven texture gives the most natural impression of Maurice Quentin de La Tour's original oil painting. The finish is satin/gloss, which keeps the depth of the dark tones the way varnish does on a painting in a museum; a matte canvas looks dull and pale next to it. More about our print media.

Start with the original, which measures 175 × 128 cm. A print at or near that size reads the way the artist judged it. Printing smaller is easy; enlarging a small original changes its character. For the wall, above a sofa or a sideboard aim for two thirds to three quarters of the furniture width, and hang the center at eye level. Cut paper to size and tape it to the wall before you order. The original hangs in Louvre Museum, Paris, France. Full size guide.
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About the Painting

The execution of this portrait in pastel, exceptional in both scale and quality, cost Maurice Quentin de La Tour (1704-1788) three years of work. Madame de Pompadour is seated in her salon, surrounded by objects that symbolise her role as patron of the arts - literature, music, astronomy, engraving. She herself made etchings, sometimes retouched with a chisel - as evidenced by the plaque on the right, which bears Pompadour sculpsit.

Leonardo da Vinci used the pastel from its inception and described it as 'a way of colouring dry'. This paste was obtained from finely crushed dyes mixed with resin, in tones of innumerable shades (more than one thousand six hundred exist), and was probably brought to Italy from France. It is a soft and very fine material which allows the colours to be muted, obliterated, reapplied or overlaid. In the eighteenth century its success was enormous. Some artists, such as Quentin de La Tour, worked only in pastel; many others used it for life sketches and portraits. Quentin de La Tour was admitted a member of the Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1746. He imposed himself as a portrait painter of the royal family and of prominent figures in the ruler's entourage; he was able to convey the psychology of his models with subtle insight, capturing fleeting emotions. For formal portraits, such as that of the Marquise, he paints the head in the presence of the model on a round sheet of paper, which he attaches to the composition. In pastel, large sizes are rare, but de La Tour's skill and virtuosity are of such a class that he achieves perfection both in the rendering of the silk dress embroidered with gold, the lace and velvet, and in the exquisite sculpting of the face and the delicate softness of the skin.

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